A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and beyond.

AKITA--A small Epsilon S rocket engine exploded during a test in a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency testing center in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, on July 14, breaking the morning quiet and ...

Watch how the Space Launch System rocket RS-25 undergoes a core stage engine test-fire. Credit: NASA's Stennis Space Center ...

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Above: The laboratory prototype of Rosatom’s new plasma electric rocket engine. The device is based on a magnetic plasma accelerator with increased thrust parameters developed by scientists from the ...

Seattle-Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin is laying off around 10 per cent of its workforce following a period of rapid expansion, the firm’s chief executive told staff on Feb 13.

The company has an ambitious portfolio that includes space tourism, a moon lander, space station development and the production of rocket engines. Limp, a former Amazon executive, was appointed ...

The Troitsk institute of Rosatom, a company owned by the Russian government, has made a rocket engine that can revolutionise space travel. It's a plasma electric rocket engine, and it could make trips ...

Moscow: In what could come as a giant leap in spacecraft technology, Russia is working on a new plasma-based rocket engine system which might cut travel time to Mars from existing 7 months to just one ...

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A trip to Mars may be in the books for future astronauts, but current propulsion technology will have them floating in a spacecraft bound for the Red Planet for roughly six to nine months.

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator with elevated traction parameters (at least 6 Newtons) and ...